Irish Spatial Data Exchange
Shipwreck Inventory of Ireland - National Monuments Service
Datset created from Shipwreck database extracts.
Extracts received from Department of Environment, Heritage & Local Government, Underwater Unit in October 2010.
Point location of wrecks identified off the West and South West coast of Ireland.
The Underwater Archaeology Unit (UAU) is engaged in the preparation of an inventory of recorded shipwrecks in Irish waters. The Shipwreck Inventory of Ireland includes all known wrecks for the years up to and including 1945 and approximately 10,000 records have been compiled and integrated into the shipwreck database thus far. The Shipwreck Inventory is principally a desktop survey with information gathered from a broad range of cartographic, archaeological and historical sources, both documentary and pictorial. Wrecks over 100 years old and archaeological objects found underwater are protected under the National Monuments (Amendment) Acts 1987 and 1994. Significant wrecks less than 100 years old can be designated by Underwater Heritage Order on account of their historical, archaeological or artistic importance as is the case with the wreck of the Co. Cork RMS Lusitania located off Kinsale Head. Underwater Heritage Orders can also be used to designate areas of seabed or land covered by water to more clearly define and protect wreck sites and archaeological objects.
Resource Purpose: To record the location of shipwrecks identified as part of the Shipwreck Inventory of Ireland.
Resource Status: onGoing
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- Date (Creation)
- 2010-11-08
- Citation identifier
- Coastal Heritage / Heritage Council
- Cited responsible party
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Heritage Council
Beatrice Kelly
Point of contact Department Environment, Heritage & Local Government
Karl Brady
Publisher
- Presentation form
- Digital map
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Heritage Council
Beatrice Kelly
Point of contact
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Oceanographic geographical features
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Wrecks
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Ship Wrecks, department Environment local government, underwater unit, Coastal Heritage, Heritage Council
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- Access constraints
- Restricted
- Other constraints
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the protection of the environment to which such information relates, such as the location of rare species.
- Use limitation
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The Shipwreck Inventory of Ireland archive is currently available for consultation by prior arrangement in the offices of the National Monuments Service Archive, Floor 2, Block 6, Irish Life Centre, Dublin 1. To make an appointment phone 01 888 3920 or email nmarchive@environ.ie. This data is strictly the copyright of The Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. They are offered to interested individuals or organisations for private use on their own computer systems. They should not be passed on to third parties, either directly or as part of an application. They should not be sold, in whole or in part, nor should they form part of any application or development being sold. Anyone who wishes to incorporate this data into an added-value application should first contact The Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to request permission and negotiate terms, if applicable. The content of this data is provisional in that it is a record of our current data holdings. The Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government will accept no liability for any loss or damage suffered by those using this data for any purpose.
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 50000
- Language
- English
- Topic category
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- Oceans
- Environment description
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Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 3; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.1.3500
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- Reference system identifier
- TM65_Irish_Grid
- Topology level
- Geometry only
- Geometric object type
- Point
- Geometric object count
- 75
- Statement
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Shapefile created from excel extracts provided by Underwater Unit DoE.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 60b3f865-a2ba-4f86-8cca-c84a8e6aa30b XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Hierarchy level name
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2010-11-23T10:19:41
- Metadata standard name
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Based on ISO 19115:2005/19139:2007 INSPIRE Directive 2007/2/EC Metadata Implementing Rules
- Metadata standard version
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1.2 INSPIRE Metadata Implementing Rules
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Compass Informatics
Ali Robinson
Point of contact
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